Why assisted suicide must be resisted
By Teresa Lynch, TCW:
SEVERAL attempts in the UK to legalise assisted suicide (the precursor of euthanasia) have been defeated. MPs and peers have said that they received more letters on this subject than on any other, asking them to vote against it. Opinion polls, as we know, repeatedly get it wrong, on this issue as on many others.
My experience as a young nurse taught me the danger of the ideology of legalised euthanasia and led me to found Pro-Life Nurses (UK).
We need to offer patients hope and trust in their health professionals, not the fear of being a burden. Patients do not need huge pressure to opt for ‘the way out’ which would inevitably occur. Audits in those countries and states where it is legal consistently show the reason given for it is fear of being a burden.
Here I set out some of the arguments given for euthanasia and assisted suicide, and our responses.
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